Chapter 1554: Not Competing with the People for Profits

“Why are you listless today?” Mrs. Thatcher wondered, inquiring with concern, “Is it because you didn’t rest well yesterday?”

“There may have been some.” Alan Wilson was not embarrassed, not rested is not rested, heard Mrs. Thatcher learn that he and Reagan are old acquaintances, asked how this new U.S. President, said to himself that it was an Alzheimer’s, two-faced, Wall Street stooge, or a work thief, but still gave the highest evaluation, “Reagan actually sees things in a similar way to the Prime Minister. ”

That’s why there’s such a thing as the Anglo-American Special Relationship, the UK and the US ushered in such a humdinger of a pair in the 1980s, thankfully, thankfully, the Soviet Union was politically unstable on its side.

If there had been a stable leadership, I wonder what would have happened when the neoliberal cocktail wore off.

Although in the late eighties, Reagan and Margaret Thatcher’s administration of the United Kingdom and the United States, there are economic difficulties, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, this kind of difficulty immediately with the collapse of the rival disappeared.

Alan Wilson, who would have to have been a Briton, would not have noticed this difficulty even back in the past, because in later times Britain would not have shed a single word on public opinion. It would only be said that Britain and the United States, which have a special relationship, threw up their arms and their evil opponents came crashing down.

The victor will not summarize the experience, only that it should be, can note that the end of the Cold War, Britain and the United States are also a strong breath of gritting their teeth countries, is in the losers of the camp in the middle of the leakage of the fish.

A major country will only review the various stages of the Cold War, a major country’s key to the road, only to discuss the United Kingdom and the United States this round of the Seven Hurts if the Soviet Union did not kill, will not be directly into economic stagnation.

The Supreme Authority is such a person in the keyway, only Mrs. Thatcher heard this kind of evaluation of Reagan’s words, but she had the feeling of finding a soulmate, “So it seems that President Reagan should be a good person.”

“I think Reagan’s evaluation of the Prime Minister should be similar.” Alan Wilson squeezed out a smile as if he had witnessed the birth of a great transatlantic alliance, but in his heart he was not impressed.

The Soviet Union side if the map head to perform suicide, that did not say, chicken blood to make a strong fight, medicine to make a strong high, the seven injuries fist practice to the highest level, but the leader of the Soviet Union is not him, that can be to control the dose of it, other people’s Soviet Union is fine, the free world this side of the mess.

After all, that kind of once-in-a-millennium wizard can not be rare, can not expect any one person can play the effect of the map head, that is completely unrealistic.

Actually saving the USSR was easy, switch the positions of the Chetniks and the Mapheads in 1985 and the USSR could definitely be saved.

To Mrs. Thatcher’s idea of expressing congratulations on Reagan’s victory, Alan Wilson readily accepted the order, believing that Mrs. Thatcher and Reagan definitely had everything in common.

Subsequently drafted a public and a private two letters of congratulations, Alan Wilson in the private level to Reagan’s victory to express congratulations, at the same time in the name of the British government played Mrs. Thatcher’s congratulatory letter to Reagan’s victory, can be described as warm, highlighting the decades of sometimes existent and sometimes non-existent special relationship between Britain and the United States.

Soon, Reagan’s two letters of reply came, a hesitant meaning through the paper to meet the face, Alan Wilson can feel, years of long-cherished dream a realization of the joy of the feelings.

Allen Wilson thought for a moment picked up the phone, “find a few big newspapers to talk to the editor-in-chief, help me make an appointment.”

Britain and the United States special relationship to rely on public opinion shaping, Allen Wilson is not very willing to shape the special relationship between the two countries, but the two leaders of the private comrade-in-arms relationship, he is still willing to help.

To focus on the fact that they were both monetarist politicians who believed in monetarism, both advocated an uncompromising, hard-line stance against the Soviet Union; both pursued far-right internal and external policies, disapproved of the workers’ movement, and both were ideologically sworn to be incompatible with the Soviet set.

Margaret Thatcher’s election was a major boost to Reagan’s campaign, and Reagan’s quest for the White House was a strong endorsement of Margaret Thatcher, etc., pretty much.

Reagan’s reply to Mrs. Thatcher’s letter in the middle of the invitation to visit, Mrs. Thatcher gladly agreed, and Alan Wilson excitedly discuss, the excitement is overflowing, “Alan, since you and Reagan is an old acquaintance, this time together to visit it, absolutely can play an important role.”

“Hm? Good.” Alan Wilson thought for a moment and nodded his head, he still wanted to see how far the good oldest child had progressed with Gates and Jobs, and whether or not he had become a respected Duan Yongping.

Before that though, there were still two things to do in the UK right now, regarding the privatization of the steel industry and the water supply.

Pamela Mountbatten was out of London, as it was now nearing the end of the year, and considering that the last time she had stayed in London, she had ended up sickly in the middle of the winter, Alan Wilson had asked the richest woman if she was not sending one of her people to deal with the matter that Britain’s important assets should be handed over to a reliable person.

So the reliable son and daughter appeared, the Mountbatten Group is a family business, among the many families, randomly take out one in the United Kingdom is loud and clear, but the Mountbatten family is obviously the most important among them, Pamela and Arnold, a pair of siblings, to accept their mother’s important task.

“You will make it appear that this is a peacemaking exercise in power and money.” Alan Wilson looked at the pair of sons and daughters who had been entrusted with important tasks by the richest woman, and spoke helplessly, “Reliability is enough. But it will make people think that I am not reliable enough as the secretary general of the cabinet.”

“Father, the public is concerned about the privatization of the steel industry, not the privatization of the tap water supply. We can go along with it and focus the public hype on British Steel while we cede the privatization of the steel company to someone else and concentrate on capturing the water company above.”

Arnold smiled and suggested, “It’ll be fine, the water supply company is important but because it’s so common, it rather doesn’t attract the attention of public opinion, unlike the steel industry.”

“Then you guys can’t just step in.” Alan Wilson educated the two men, “You can just watch from behind the scenes, and the bottom bid for privatization is not a secret to you anyway.”

New York as long as a dollar salary mayor can turn the assets dozens of times, this kind of thing in the free world is not how strange, that is, the supreme authority loves to cherish the feather.

“Mother is not interested in the native steel industry itself, and the current tax rates are still too high for those traditional industries. Malaya doesn’t have that problem.” Pamela seemed to have grown a bit since taking over the gaming industry and spoke eloquently about her knowledge of this privatized sector.

“Things have to be taken one step at a time, that can’t be said, and after the steelworker layoffs in half, British Steel is primed for profitability.” Alan Wilson is also aware that his wife, who is far away in Perth, is concerned that British Steel is indeed not very profitable compared to the steel base in Kuching.

But there are reasons for this, the steel industries in the two places are very different and conditions cannot be generalized, labor in Malaya is indeed lower than on the mainland, there are no messy tax rates.

“The Prime Minister has already reduced the tax rate for entrepreneurs, as for a greater reduction, it will have to wait, the Conservative Party’s support is now more difficult to see, when the support is solid, I believe that there will be a further policy of tax reduction in the future.”

“But the five-fold increase in medical prescription charges shows that the Prime Minister is still decisive, can’t the pace of tax cuts be accelerated a little?” Arnold inquired with some surprise.

“Unemployed workers to two million is also fast, do you hope in increasing faster?” Alan Wilson reprimanded his son, it’s good to have such a prime minister, and also to give the prime minister some time so that the great situation can be stabilized.

Family dialogue ends here, Alan Wilson inadvertently leaked two industries privatization of the original intention, the original intention is in principle, British Steel and Water privatization funds, can not exceed the initial nationalization of the cost, otherwise it is the state and private competition for profit.

These two industries are nationalized during the period of Prime Minister Adderley, when the national integration of the cost of today’s privatization costs.

Arnold’s eyes lit up and he sincerely sighed, “This is really great news, the great motherland really fills people with pride.”

With so many years of economic development coupled with the inflation factor, the purchasing power of the spending during the Airdrie period compared to now is unknown to be many times higher. Still privatized at the original price, it was a money pickup.

This privatization was officially underway before Christmas came around, and almost at the same time Alan Wilson was dealing with protests over the drastic increase in health care costs, as the good Dahl put it, medical drugs have gone up more than five-fold in the past year, and protests ensued after being recited by Arnold, the ravening rabble-rouser.

“Let’s just say we have to trust the invisible hand of the market to regulate itself.” The supreme authority with the microphone clamped around his neck replied with a yawn, “The issue of health care costs is a very complex one, and it’s very complex because it’s very complex. Among a wide range of areas, there has always been the problem of some people taking advantage of the low-cost medications provided by the state, resulting in the loss of state property.”

“What do you mean the cost of personal health care has exceeded that of Germany, and why should we compare ourselves with Germany, when you take a look at the United States you will see that health care in Britannia is not only comprehensive but productive. Well they’ll understand, it’s not like everyone gets sick, so why not think about how to maintain a healthy diet and get more fit.”

Put down the microphone Alan Wilson opened the TV, looked at the news among the news, about the water company to one and a half billion pounds to complete the privatization, can not help but feel relieved, the country should be like this, not to compete with the people for profit.